groundward

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The sensors actually detect the neutrons created in the upper atmosphere when high-speed particles slam into the nuclei of atoms of gases, knocking them apart and sending the neutrons groundward.

From Science Magazine • Jul. 6, 2012

From a transmitting antenna on one wing, radio waves are bounced groundward, caught on the rebound by a receiving antenna on the other wing.

From Time Magazine Archive

Smoke was pouring out of the chimney of a cabin and falling groundward, as it does in the Arctic during very cold weather.

From The Yukon Trail A Tale of the North by Wolfe, George Ellis

With slow caution, lest he arouse Tharn, the young cave man slipped groundward.

From The Return of Tharn by Browne, Howard

Not being able to think of any nobler achievements, I cast my eyes groundward, and, on again raising them, I beheld, across the clear space on the door, the single word, 'Try!'

From Tom Clark and His Wife Their Double Dreams, And the Curious Things that Befell Them Therein; Being the Rosicrucian's Story by Randolph, Paschal Beverly